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Toonami to Air Dragon Ball Daima Anime
posted on by Alex Mateo
The schedule for June 14 is (all times EDT, with Dragon Ball Daima first episode being longer than normal):
12:00 a.m. – Lazarus
12:30 a.m. – Dragon Ball Daima
1:15 a.m. – Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
1:45 a.m. – Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga
2:15 a.m. – One Piece
2:45 a.m. – Naruto
3:15 a.m. – Sailor Moon
The Dragon Ball Daima anime premiered on October 11 on a new anime programming block on Fuji TV on Fridays at 11:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. EDT). Crunchyroll began streaming the anime on October 11, the same day the anime premiered in Japan. Netflix is also streaming the anime. Crunchyroll is also streaming the anime's English dub, which features the return of young Goku's original voice actress Stephanie Nadolny. The anime ended on February 28.
Yoshitaka Yashima (animation director on Dragon Ball Super, Digimon franchise) and Aya Komaki (One Piece series director, episode director on Marie & Gali) served as series directors, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (Dragon Ball Z, Digimon franchise) adapted the late Akira Toriyama's character designs for animation, and Yuuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri. films, 2022 Urusei Yatsura, Cells at Work!) supervised and wrote the series scripts. Franchise creator Akira Toriyama was credited for the new anime's story and character designs. Akio Iyoku, founder of Capsule Corporation Tokyo, was credited as an executive producer.
Zedd feat. C&K. (CLIEVY and KEEN) perform the opening theme song "Jaka Jaan." ZEDD feat. Ai perform the ending theme song "Nakama" (Companions), which Zedd composed specifically for the anime. Singer-songwriter Ai wrote the ending theme song's lyrics.
In the series, Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, Piccolo, and other characters throughout the series become younger than usual. However, this is different from a similar plotline in the Dragon Ball GT anime, in which Goku reverts back into a kid after the end of the original series. Goku and friends travel to the Demon Realm to restore their bodies and rescue Earth's Guardian Dende, who has been transformed into a baby. There, they meet new allies and enemies. Although the title "Daima" does not mean anything, the kanji could be interpreted as "Evil" in English.
